John Cockerill, enablers of opportunities

Driven since 1817 by the entrepreneurial spirit and thirst for innovation of its founder, the John Cockerill Group develops large-scale technological solutions to meet the needs of its time: facilitating access to low carbon energies, enabling sustainable industrial production, preserving natural resources, contributing to greener mobility, enhancing security and installing essential infrastructures.

Its offer to businesses, governments and communities consists of services and associated equipment for the sectors of energy, defence, industry, the environment, transports, and infrastructures. With more than 8,000 employees, John Cockerill achieved a turnover of € 1.417 billion in 2024 in 28 countries, on 5 continents.

Job Purpose

Plan, lead, and deliver on key engineering for Thermal equipment’s like furnaces and ovens for strip processing lines that enable to achieve operational excellence and support the growth objectives of the organisation.

Key Result Areas

- Development and sustenance of engineering equipments, processes and systems
- Meeting the targets around Quality, Delivery and Cost by leading team
- Innovation mindset to bring in current designs to improve functionality and reduce cost.
- Team Leader ensuring sub-ordinates career and competency development.

Key Responsibilities

- Understand the contract requirements and develop basic and detailed design for the same.
- Lead team of Engineers and Designers to ensure engineering deliverables in form of specifications, 3D Models, detailed drawings, calculation sheet and other documentation for engineering.
- Work in team with group leaders, Engineers, and Designers within Engineering and other functions
- Create and check engineering related documents as per the Quality Management System (QMS)



and Design Approval Matrix.
- Work with other functions to update documentation in line with engineering requirements.
- Generating bought out specifications and approving the offers received from suppliers.
- Aid manufacturing in case of any design queries.
- Keep themselves abreast of the new technologies and imbibe the same in product design and development.
- Communication with customer, participation in technical discussions with customer
- Co-ordination with Erection and commissioning for site support
- Understand the process requirements, define the instruments needed for the process, develop the process instrumentation diagram.

Education and Experience

- 20- 25 years in design of thermal equipments for heavy engineering/steel processing

Background, Skills, and Competencies

- Good knowledge of Auto CAD Inventor for modelling and drawing creation, and Product Data Management Tools (like Vault)
- Team management capability. Should have led team of engineers and designers with defined metrics around quality, delivery, and cost.
- Mechanical and thermal calculations with thermal equipment design knowledge
- Basic Metallurgy knowledge (steel composition, heat treatment processes)
- Value Engineering knowledge and should have executed the same.
- Planning, Decision making ability, time management and task prioritization.
- Good Interpersonal and communication (oral and written) skills.




- Ability to work in an Agile environment in a Collaborative way.
- Experience in steel processing thermal equipment design like furnaces and ovens (Nice to Have)

Who We Are

About John Cockerill : John Cockerill India Limited an ISO 9001:2015 engineering company - formerly CMI FPE Limited was incorporated on May 28, 1986. The Belgian group Cockerill Maintenance & Ingénierie (CMI) now known as John Cockerill completed the acquisition in June 2008. John Cockerill India is the Indian entity of John Cockerill Group.

‘John Cockerill India Limited.’ John Cockerill Industry’s Indian hub and center of excellence for cold rolling mill complexes, is the world leader in the conception, manufacture, and installation of reversible cold rolling mills. It has developed a wide range of technologies in the field of processing lines, rolling mills, thermal and chemical processes. It also supplies auxiliary steel treatment equipment. John Cockerill India offers the entire product portfolio of John Cockerill Industry and is coordinating the whole range of its activities including, but not limited to local engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing. As an international specialist in industrial processes and technologies, John Cockerill Industry designs, supplies and modernizes cold rolling mills, processing lines, chemical and thermal treatment installations for the steel and the non-ferrous industry, as well as state-of-the-art heat treatment technologies for the aviation, forging and casting industry, and hydrometallurgical processes for the extraction of ores.

John Cockerill India complements John Cockerill’s strategy for growth with mínimal overlaps in products and a versatile range of technology synergies. John Cock

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